Alberto Lleras Camargo

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Declaration of Sitges

agreement in 1957 by the rival Colombian political leaders
Alberto Lleras Camargo of the Liberals and Laureano Gómez of the Conservatives to form a coalition National Front government to replace the dictatorial regime of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Lleras and Gómez, who had met in Benidorm, Spain, in 1956 to discuss the ouster of Rojas, returned the following year to Sitges, where, on...

leadership of Colombia

The arrangement for the National Front government—a coalition of Conservatives and Liberals—was made by
Alberto Lleras Camargo, representing the Liberals, and Laureano Gómez, leader of the Conservative Party, in the Declaration of Sitges (1957). The unique agreement provided for alternation of Conservatives and Liberals in the presidency, an equal sharing of ministerial and...